Startup Reading 4.26.15

Do it.  Document it.  Delegate it.

Strategy Lessons from Gates, Grove, and Jobs - Forbes.com
You can't run good meetings without good data - Results.com

Startup Lessons I wish I knew as a first time founder - Zaid Zawaideh
Apple WatchAware - Apps for the Watch

          

Startup Reading 4.19.15

Prototyping is always worth it

Prototyping is always worth it - Futurice.com
Smoke Tests: Comprehension vs. Commitment - GrasshopperHerder.com

The Innovators Dilemma for SaaS Startups - Tom Tunguz
Management Myths vs. Facts - Results.com

10 Experiments to test your startup hypothesis - Founder Institute
Reward Success and Failure, punish only inaction - Berkus

Your Product Demo Sucks because you're focused on your product - First Round
The 5 Ps of Productive Meetings - Results.com

CFO to CEO: What happens if we invest in developing our people, 
and then they leave us?

CEO: What if we don't, and they stay?

From Garry Ridge, CEO WD-40

You don't build a business.

You build people and then people build the business.

Zig Ziglar

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

Peter Drucker

Startup reading 4.12.15

The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates

Uncommon Ways to work Smarter not Harder - Quora
The Few Sentences You Need to Dominate Your Market - KissMetrics

How to Have Your Customer Build Your Product For You - Founder Institute
Onboarding New Hires to Maximize Engagement - Results.com

Set Yourself Up to Succeed - Results.com
Kanban Flow for Project Management - Kanban Flow

3 Ways to get your time back - Results.com

The two most important days of your life are the

 day you are born and the day you find out why.

Mark Twain

None of the market leaders in technology

were the First Movers.

Steve Blank

Startup reading 4.5.15

source: http://fi.co/posts/14191

What you should know before you start using KPIs - Results.com
Before you create your product, create your Value Proposition - Founder Institute

How to have your customer build your product for you - Founder Institute
20 Ideas to build a better workplace culture - HelpScout

10 Signs of a Tech Bubble - CB Insights
101 Startup Failure Post-Mortems - CB Insights

The Importance of highly disciplined highly structured meetings - Results.com
10 Management Books Every CIO Should Read - Information Week

The tragedy of life
is not that it ends so soon,
but that we wait so long to begin it.
W.M. Lewis

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,
but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year
you'll be surprised at how little you have.
Ernest Haskins

Only the curious will learn, and
only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning.
The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
Eugene S. Wilson

Reading well 
is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Harold Bloom

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H.L. Mencken

The best way to have a good idea
is to have a lot of ideas.
Linus Carl Pauling

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt.
Speech was given to conceal thought.
Sir William Osler

You've achieved success in your field
when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Warren Beatty